Amy J. Braverman is an American statistician who analyzes

remote sensing Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an physical object, object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring inform ...

data and

climate model Numerical climate models (or climate system models) are mathematical models that can simulate the interactions of important drivers of climate. These drivers are the atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice. Scientists use climate models to st ...

s as a senior research scientist at the

Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. Founded in 1936 by Cali ...

. She has also served as co-chair of the Climate Change Policy Advisory Committee of the American Statistical Association.

Education

Braverman graduated from

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the e ...

in 1982, with a bachelor's degree in economics. From 1983 to 1991 she worked in litigation support consulting in Los Angeles before studying statistics. She went to the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

for graduate study, earning a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1999. Her dissertation, ''A Rate-distortion Approach to Massive Data Set Analysis'', was advised by Don Ylvisaker.

Recognition

In 2012, the American Statistical Association named Braverman as a fellow "for contributions to environmental statistics, particularly in the interface between massive-data reduction and remote sensing; and for service to the statistics community in climate research and policy". In 2022, she was awarded the senior research scientist designation at JPL for her work in statistical methods and uncertainty quantification for remote sensing data. In January 2023, Braverman became the Chair for the SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification.

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